Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1887-01-06
DIAB0LICAL MURDER,
IN WHICH THE VICTIMS MEMBERS
ARE WIDELY SCATTERED.

His Head Found at One Place. His Bod
at Another and One Limb Not Found
at All-The Corpse Hacked to Pieces
with an Axe-Clue to the Murderer.
BoSToy, Jan. 6.-L Brooks, a Lincoln
farmer, while riding toward Lexington early
Wednesday morning, discovered in the snow
about two rods beyond the stone wall at the
side Of the road, the detached head of man,
its shock of hair matted with blood It had
apparently been chopped off with dull axe
The features were contracted as if the man
had suffered agony. Just above and behind
the left ear were several deep gashes two or
three inches long. The hair was short, thick
and brown, the forehead low, the nose small
and the complexion medium. a few feet
away lay bare arm, small but muscular,
severed at the shoulder. The hand appeared
to be tina. of blacksmith. Jumping into
his pung, Mr.. Brooks rovel rapidly to Lex,
ington, and notified the authorities Of bis
discovery, which confirms the suspicion
aroused by the finding of bloody clothing in
Lexington Tuesday that horrible murder
has been committed in the vicinity.
On receipt of the information Globe re
porter and two other men visited the scene.
They found near the arm q blood besmeared
piece of The Evening Record of Dec. %
which corresponded. in date and appearance
to bloody piece of the same paper which
was picked up Tuesday near the bundle Of
clothing. The latter was so besmeared as tc
indicate being used as towel by the muir
derer. A large rubber HORSEPOWER had beer
thrown from the road for the purpose of con
cealing the remains, but it failed Of its pur,
pose by landing upon intervening bushes
There was pool of blood in the middle Of
the road.
The party followed the road for over 6
mile to densely wooded hill. On the left
of this, in a deep gully, naked, headles:
body was found. Deep cuts in the hip ana
foreleg indicated the intention of the muir
derers of severing the left limb, as they had
the right, which had been rudely chopped
off at the thigh. One arm also was missing
from the body and presumably was thai
found with the head down the road Dr. J.
o. Tilton, who led the party, gave immedi
ate instructions that no one should touch the
remains or approach too near the place te
destroy such traces OF the perpetrators of the
crime as might exist.
A timetable Of the railroad between Som
erville and Boston was found in the murdered
mans pocket; also a ticket 10 Somerville
This leads the police TO surmise that the mar
may have belonged in Cambridge, Somer
vile. or Boston The left leg Of the body is
still missing. The place where the body was
found is a very lonely one. The man might
have been murdered, chopped to pieces and
thrown out Of a wagon without danger Of
| observation
A young man named Nowlan called upor
| the Somerville police Wednesday evening
| and expressed his belief that the MURDERS
| man was his employer, George A. Coiman, G
milkman of Somervilla. Nowlan says tha
| Goldman drove away Tn9iay morning in s
| sleigh with a young man, whom he addresses
| as Frank, and who was a stranger 10 Now
| Ian. Goldman had collected all the money HI
could, and told Nowlan he did not know
| when he should return. Coiman's clothes. a
| described by Npwlan, correspond with thos
| found with the body, especially the mittens,
| which had been meni9d wiki beiucking.
| The police are confident that this clue vii
| lead TO the solution of ihs mystery
LATER-A dispatch from lexington state
that the body has been fully Identified a
| that Of George A Goldman, the SomervilIs
milkman. There is no clue to the murderer
nor has the team with which Goldman an,
his companion left SomerviIle been found
| The money which Goldman started with
about SEQ, is gone